Posted on 03/16/2013 11:40:57 AM PDT by smoothsailing
March 16, 2013
by Mytheos Holt
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a barn-burning, hyper-folksy speech to conservative activists Saturday, bringing the entire audience to its feet multiple times.
Palin’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference started in an unconventional way: After she was first introduced, the crowd was shocked to see Texas Sen. Ted Cruz walk out onstage. Cruz said he was there to introduce Palin himself ahead of his keynote speech later in the afternoon.
“The mainstream media wants us to be timid and hide in a corner. And the mainstream media is absolutely convinced that women cannot be conservatives, and if they are, they especially cannot shoot really big guns and hunt grizzly bears,” Cruz said. “That’s why Governor Sarah Palin drives the mainstream media batcrap crazy.”
Cruz directly attributed his success to Palin, a key backer of his, saying: “I would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Sarah Palin.”
When Palin herself entered, the entire crowd surged for the first of many times. Palin waved energetically as she was welcomed, then immediately thanked Cruz.
“The senator is the keynote speaker and he would lower himself to do an introduction for a hockey mom from Wasilla,” Palin said in faux-wonder. “Ted Cruz, he chews barbed wire, he spits out rust. That’s what we need.”
But Palin herself seemed to be in a chewing out mood, as well. She started off with the president’s recent attempts to restrict gun owner rights.
“That chunk of metal did the crime? That’s like saying, ‘that fork made me fat,’” Palin joked about the idea that guns are responsible for violence. “Background checks? Dandy idea, Mr. President. Should’ve started with yours.”
Palin wasn’t close to finished. She moved on to attack the calls for “rebranding” of the Republican Party.
“Let’s be clear about one thing: We’re not here to rebrand the party. We’re here to rebuild a country,” Palin said. “We’re not here to dedicate ourselves to new talking points coming from DC. We’re not here to put a fresh coat of rhetorical point on our party…We’re here to restore America, and the rest is just theatrics. The rest is sound and fury. It’s just noise. And that sums up the job President Obama does today.”
At one point, Palin reached under the podium and pulled out a Big Gulp and began drinking from it onstage. The action itself bringing large sections of the crowd to its feet.
But the bulk of Palin’s speech was devoted to blasting the Washington and GOP establishment, including a not-so-veiled jab at Republican “architect” strategist Karl Rove.
“If you don’t have a team of lobbyists in D.C. or a canceled contribution check, well, you’re not at the table. You’re on the menu,” she said. “The last thing we need is Washington, D.C. vetting our candidates…If we had one message to send to Washington, it would be this: Get over yourself. It’s not about you.”
But when Palin left the stage, for those few moments, it was all about her, leaving the audience roaring on its feet for several minutes straight.
I love that part!
Also like this quote from Ted Cruz in his introduction of Sarah:
Lighten up there cupcake.
She is folksy to those of us who are folksy.
She plays well in flyover country and is smokin Hot!
Sheesh! nOOb...
No D.C. B.S. With Her!
Here is some Photo's she posted on Facebook (although I don't do facebook Sarah is still public so I can follow her :D)
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Please SHARE this image if you agree that we need to rebuild our country!
A Toast to those who Wish Her Well, and those who don't can go to Hell.
One more thing to be angry at McCain about. He grabbed her as his VP candidate before she was ready. In 2012, she would have been a sitting governor for 6 years, with solid experience as an executive, and would likely have run away with the nomination in her own right.
Those pictures are AMAZING!!! Love her with the Super Big Gulp..she always knows how to piss off the libs I LOVE IT!!
Whoo-WHoo!
Let her know. Share your advice with her on her Facebook page or send her a tweet or an email.
I sure am Glad Jeb Bush and Chris Christie Don't get this kind of scrutiny, otherwise the GOP primary might be an actual race.
GO Sarah!
They bitch that "big corporations" move their jobs overseas, yet don't recognize that Unions drove themselves out of jobs with outrageous benefits, wages, and ULTRA-High-Paid Union bosses, where a corporation could not survive in the marketplace without reality striking....Now, the Public Sector is the sinkhole where Unionization has priced us into unprecedented bloated job-creation, for even MORE Government, and We The People are not represented at all in our Hand-Picked Elite choice of replacement power-grabbers for the future.
Likewise, "no more wars", and thinking those whose "Religion" REQUIRES that they "destroy the infidels" is somehow disregarded, because the "War on Terror creates more terrorists". Does a war on Criminal Activity create more criminals, in your goofy Anarchy-supportive Libertarian mind, too?
Thanks, KC_Lion!
That was great in his introduction, he nailed it. LOL!
Sarah is continuing to embrace her inner Hebrew!
HaShem bless her a thousand times over, she has earned it. :)
Sarah IS today's Lady Liberty.
Hey, I do believe I also have the inner Hebrew!
Hopefully I make it there before judgement day!
Kudos to you for standing by Sarah, I can only post the pics and the ping the lists, it is you all who get her message out there!
We all know Ubama is a fraud, sadly that won't get him out of office now :(
Almost posted a joke but, self moderated...
I’m sure as one PDSer has says often, they all wish she’d go make’em a sammich.
That she IS doing something other than what the GOP wants is their main problem. And God knows what the modern incarnation of the GOP wants is 100% off what we actually need done.
It’s funny (read: Pathetic) that so many of the people haunting conservative forums bitch about her, but when you get right down to it, they ‘claim’ to agree with the positions she takes.
In any normal environment, such people would be laughed at and rightly thought daft. I mean really. What sense is there in agreeing with the message and railing the messenger? Sounds like someone that never left High School.
The guy that does the “Liberal Logic 101” memes ought to turn his attention to the idiots we have on our own side of the fence. Because they deserve it.
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